Andrew Village: 2 books
The Church of England in the First Decade of the 21st Century
Findings from the Church Times Surveys
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book analyzes two large surveys of clergy and lay people in the Church of England taken in 2001 and 2013. The period between the two surveys was one of turbulence and change, and the surveys offer a unique insight into how such change affected grassroots opinion on topics such as marriage, women’s...
The Bible and Lay People
An Empirical Approach to Ordinary Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
There are many books about how people ought to interpret the Bible. This book is about how people in churches actually interpret the Bible, and why they interpret it in the way that they do. Based on a study of Anglicans in the Church of England, it explores the interaction of belief, personality,...